Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Speaking Skills”
I have just been reading an on-line article on how to create your self improvement plan and noticed that the 5 step process applies similarly to a plan that you can use to improve your public speaking and presentation skills. The full article, written by Eduard Ezeanu can be found at http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-create-your-self-improvement-plan/ Basically the steps are: 1 Start by recognising the limits. …
One of things that I notice in public speaking and presentation skills is that people, including me, focus on the negatives and the “what went wrong” aspect of their speeches. In Chip and Dan Heaths book Switch – How To Change Things When Change is Hard, they talk about the many hours that are spent analysing what went wrong and …
Stage fright, nerves, performance anxiety, whatever you want to call it – is a reality for many situations and one that most people will experience at some stage in their life as they take on challenges. It may be on the sporting big stage, performing, your wedding ceremony, a conference presentation or simply undertaking public speaking. I am not a …
Eye contact is one of the most important aspects of public speaking and can really make or break your presentation. In my public speaking training and coaching, poor eye contact is one of the common problems I see in my students. Many people are just not comfortable using genuine and effective eye contact, and they are unsure how they can …
Malcolm Gladwell in his book “What The Dog Saw” describes research where the results of a full 1 hour job interview are compared with the assessment of a group of people who just get to watch a video of the first 15 seconds of the same interview process. The first 15 seconds is generally the hand shake, the smile, eye …
Varying research reports that over 50% of our message and our ability to connect and communicate with an audience comes from our gestures and body language. I have been watching the regular reporting of the Queensland floods and have been shocked and shaken by the enormity of the disaster. I have also been watching with great interest the interviews that …
